Traditional bread sauce

Traditional bread sauce

Every Christmas lunch needs a big bowl of bread sauce on the table

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 10 mins

plus infusing time
Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

Method

  1. Pop the onion in a pan with the milk, cream, peppercorns and bay leaves. Bring to a simmer, then turn off the heat and leave to infuse for 30 mins. Pour the milk through a sieve into a jug, then return it to a cleaned pan.
  2. Stir in the breadcrumbs, bring back to the simmer and cook for a few mins (add a splash more milk if you like your sauce thinner). Stir in the butter, season with salt, white pepper and nutmeg, then pour into a warm serving jug or bowl. Or leave to cool and chill or freeze for up to 1 month until needed.

PER SERVING

124 kcalories, protein 3g, carbohydrate 12g, fat 8 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 0g, sugar 2g, salt 0.31 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2010.

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  • 15 December 2010

    Avril commented on this recipe

    How many days can it be left in the fridge to use before christmas day?

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  • 03 January 2011

    Banana rated this recipe

    5 stars

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  • 02 October 2011

    ANDREA LOVES rated and commented on this recipe

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    Easy and is lovely with sunday roast chicken and all the trimmings.

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  • 04 December 2012

    EKMahooney commented on this recipe

    Can anyone tell me the best way to prep this with a view to freezing? Bread sauce is one of the very few things I don't eat, so no idea how to go about it. I'm thinking make it slightly thinner so that I can re-heat gently in a pan and it would thicken up while heating? Thanks in advance for any advice.

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  • 23 December 2012

    lizleicester rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I so love this sauce. It's currently in the freezer (just in a plastic bowl with a clingfilm cover) waiting for Christmas Day when I think it will be microwaved (not enough rings on my hob to do everything at the same time).

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  • 08 January 2013

    nicky rated and commented on this recipe

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    Very easy and just lovely, froze fine Will be making again.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 10 mins

plus infusing time
Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

Ingredients

  • 1 onion studded with 6 cloves
  • 300ml milk
  • 75ml double cream
  • 6 black peppercorns
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 100g fresh white breadcrumbs
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • freshly grated nutmeg , to season
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PER SERVING

124 kcalories, protein 3g, carbohydrate 12g, fat 8 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 0g, sugar 2g, salt 0.31 g

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